The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-22 00:00:00

jTLEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. - L Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. 'Messrs. Buckstone, Chippendale, Howe, Farren, Rogers, Gordon, Clark, Braid, Coe, &c.; Mesdames Angel, Snowdon, Yitzwilliam, Lindley, &c. After which, NO SONG NO SUPPER. Messrs. Compton, Farren, Arthur Clark, Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames Keeley, yilliers, Moore, Lovell, &c. And OUR MARY ANNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE...-. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. 11. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma rarnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL LYCEUNI THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Pechter. Oa BOXING NIGHT, MY WIFE'S OUT. 3.'r. H. Wld dicomb. Atter which, at 8 o'3lock, PLTY BL .S. Messrs. Fechter, By,:er, Fitzpatrick, F. Ch M'lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Collett, C ifford, Moreland ; Misses Carlotta Lezlercq, H. Percy, and Mrs. Winstanley. To conclude with a Farcical Oriental Extravaganza, en titled BAREFACED IMPOSTORS. Messrs. Widdicomb, Moreland, Raymond, Collett; Misses B. Percy and E. La venue. Divertissement des Odalisques. The Box-office open daily from Eftvtn till Five. THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELP Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WORKMEN OF PARIS. 'Mr. Benjamin Webster; Messrs. Billin2ton, R. Phillips, Stuart, J. Clarke, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. A. Mellon), Miss H. Simms. Mrs. Biliington, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Miss A. Seamen. To conclude with DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Seaman. Commence at 7. SS ROYAL AD AT EL E F . R NI L 3 N.—NEW A .. ster —WNebE be g T t EARE announce /hat the great Tragedienne, Miss BAT NMAN, so having per formed wit'n unparalleled success the character of " Leah" tor a period. of nine consecutive months during the last season at this ThQatre, and since won the plaudits of thousands in Liverpool, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester, and tilasgow, she will ItE-APPEAR at this Establishment JANUARY 2d, 1855, in her original character of the Jewish Maiden for a limited number of nights, previously to her appearing in other illustrations of the Cla=sic Drama, which are in prepa ration. The 8.,x-office will be opened on Monday, Dec. 19, when places may be secured for Miss Bateman's engagement a fortnight in advance. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. Last Three Nights of the present Management. THIS EVENING (Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews), THE BARONET ABROAD AND THE RUSTIC YE,IMA DONNA, by Lennox Horne: Mr. Frank Matthews and Miss Constance .Roden. After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new Comedy, entitled A LESSON IN LOVE Mr. and Mrs. Char,es Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of WOOLY_ OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. On Saturday, Dec. 24, Benefit of Mr. Benjamin Webster. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7. WILFUL WARD. Messrs Turner and Belford ; Miss Palmer. After which, at 8, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Miss Ada Swanbor :ugh. To conclude with MAZEPPA. Messrs. Thorne and Fen ton ; Mesdames Raynham, Simpson, and Johnstone. GRATIS AND POST FREE E. MOSES and SONS' New Pamphlet, THE PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS. W MOSE S AND SON A iv• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest fabrics are combined with the latest and most fashionable esigns, and the best workmanship. E. MOSES and SON zive particular attention to this important branch of their Liminess, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices are such as must satisfy the most economical. This depart ment is in a distinct part of the premises, which will be found a great oOnvcnience for ladies and children, WI MOSES AND SON Au respectfully invite public attention to their large and • well-assorted WINTEtt STOCK. MOSES AND SON'S •"SANDRINGHAM" and "DANISH " WRAPPER introduced by them) is the newest and most fashionable style of Overcoats for the season. E ' 1 OSES AND SON'S • READY-MADE and BESPOKE CLOTHING for all classes and all ages. ~MOSES AND SON'S • CELEBRATED "INp ISPENSABLE" SUIT, from 30s. MOSES AND SON'S • HOSIERY and DRAPERY, for all classes and all ages. MOSES AND SON'S JLA • HATS A.ND CAPS, fur all c asses and all ages. 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Top 24a. „ Deep 22s. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, dole Lgent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" sumalied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. HIGFI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis Dwir.—Morning, 7n. 58m.—Afternoon, Bh. 30m. Tn-v_oßßow. Dlorning, 9h. 3:n.—Afternoon. 9 . a. 4031. .1 • , , Itt -vurt LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1864. The news from America continues to arrive rapidly, and so momentous is the crisis that every fresh instalment is eagerly looked for and anxiously conned. Yet the crisis so long apprehended has not yet come, only there are many indications of the ultimate failure of the great Federal raid into Georgia. The news is still indecisive, but SHERMAN has found mare opposition than he reckoned on. His cavalry has been defeated between Milledge ville and Millen, and KILPATRICK is reported wounded. It is said that SHERMAN'S advanced guard had reached so near to Savannah as to be skirmishing with the Confederate outposts. This we think improbable, seeing that his cavalry had been repulsed and even captured in their attempt to open communications with Beaufort. The Savannah skirmish is probably founded on that circumstance. 1 SHELIIAN has been detained for several days rear Millen to gather supplies—in other words an excuse for not being able to force his way—it is not very likely that any portion of his troops could have got so near the coast—unless indeed it may be , f e w s tragglers who have possibly escaped as de serters or runaway fugitives. s -omo such deserters or captured Federals assert that s uEumloi has run very short of supplies and in great strait s . O n the whole his position seems to be a very desp erate one ; still he may contrive to reach the coast with a remnant of his distressed troops. President LIN. COLN himself seems to think it wise not to know too much of SHERMAN'S movements, and we hear very little boasting of the great things which he is to accomplish. At a speech which he has recently made at Wash:ngton, Mr LINCOLN said that " All knew where SHERMAN went in at, but he could not tell where be would come out at." He might have gone a little farther, and said that no one knew how he would come oat, or indeed whether he would come out at all. Meanwhile HOOD is en compassing Nashville, and destroying all communi cation by land and water; for he has established a battery on a bluff on the Cumberland River, from which seven gunboats sent to attack him were un able to effect his dislodgement. One of the gunboats returned to Nashville disabled. One of his brigades has moved towards Murfreesboro', FORREST is said to have crossed the Cumberland and to be moving towards Kentucky. There is evidently something to be done in the kindred States of Tennessee and Kentucky before Mr. LINCOLN can plume himself upon their loyalty. In the old quarters GRANT has been making a stir again, having been reinforced by troops from SHERIDAN ; and BUTLER has sent the Black Brigade across the James River to attack the Confederates, for interfering with his never. ending Dutch Gip Canal, In fact, GRANT is urged to do something so as to draw off public attention from the forlorn career of SHER MAN in Georgia, and THOMAS in West Tennessee. We hear more of the new discovery of danger from Canada, which seems to have suddenly sprung into life. The Provost Marshal has urged upon all officers to exercise " extraordinary vigilance' against the anticipated invasion by the Confederates from Canada. What this vigilance is to show itself in is not stated. Possibly in some proceedings of the Florida description. The truth is, as we obi served yesterday, that all this talk about Canada is very sigaificant, and simply proves the wisdom and prudence of the colonies looking to their defences. Whether it is meant as a threat, to keep England quiet—for LINCOLN knows our Foreign-office is easily frightened into submission—or whether, as is more probable, the object is to have a pretext ready for invasion, there is certainly more in it than meets the ear. The Northern States do not seem in any way too anxious to coneiliate the European Powers, Mr SEWARD'S last achievement has been to pen a letter to Mr ADAMS indignantly refusing the re quest of Lord WHARNCLIFFE to distribute aid to the Confederate prisoners in the North. He says "the prisoners need no assistance, and the offer of British gold is a grave insult." Of course all Yankeedom is in high exultation at such a rebuke having been administered, and the Northern press for the most part is full of triumph. The limes says that in the letter British impertinence is fitly rebuked; another journal considers that it puts the possibility of a rejoinder beyond even British im pudence. The News, however, denounces the letter as inhuman—no unfitting qualification, however, for the professed friends of the negro. It is rather late in the day for anything that the Federal Government can do to excite surprise. They have long ago shown not only an entire forgetfulness or ignorance of all the ordinary courtesies and customs of civilised countries, and a thorough contempt for the recognised laws of nations, but they have like wise shown themselves entirely regardless of the dictates of common humanity and good feeling. The barbarity with which the war has been carried on in the ruthless destroyal of the people's homes and food, and in spite of the enthusiasm of the Emancipation Society, is a disgrace to the nine.. teenth century. But at /east for that they plead, though very insufficiently, the pretext of the necessities of war ; but to refuse the minister, or to allow others to minister to the wants of the un fortunate men who are help:ess in their hands, unab:e to resent ill-treatment, or to injure their oppressors, is a mark of narrow-minded cruelty that would be despicable if it did not occasion so much needless suffering. The Federals have not hitherto treated their captives with so much care and kindness that they need be surprised that we, who in Europe are made of less callous stuff, should be anxious if possible to modify their condition. But, apart from the inhumanity, we cannot but re+ gard the afflir as a wanton and deliberate insult to the mother country. We have yet to learn the terms of SEWARD'S letter, but the tone of the New York press on the matter is quite enough, even without the accompanying explanation that it was "sharp and ernphatical," It is not the first time that Mr SEWARD has shown the skill of his diplo matic pen, and probably he and Mr WEBB have both graduated in the same class. Oar Foreign Secretary belongs to the same Charles the Second school, who are always practising what is awkward to practise, but in his dealing with America he does not generally get so far as he does with Germany. In the one case he puts " prave words" in action instead of deeds, but in the other he is careful and hesitating, even in his lan guage. Probably he will not dare to call Mr SEWARD'S letter " an insult" in his tur n : W e would advise the ,noble earl to bear in mind the moral of the old quatrain— Tender-handed touch a nettle And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." A little more of such mettle would bring Mr. SEWARD and his associates to their proper senses. At present the nettles have it very much their own way. Our continental neighbours are, however, less to be trifled with. They are greatly incensed by the omission of any reference to French doings in Mexico, and one of the Paris journals goes so far as to say that this slight will; probably have the effect of hastening the recognition of the South. It is likely enough that this will be done by both France and England, after the act has lost the grace of doing justice freely, by a sort of neces.. sity, when almost too late. Gallic chivalry and English generosity have alike withheld their in. licence. The issues of peace and war lay virtually in their hands and they refused to use their power. Had they spoken the word bold and manfully, the slaughter and suffering of the last two years might at least have been spared. Time enough had then elapsed to prove the solidity of the Confede ration as an independent power, and to show the reckless greed of the Nortb, to justify the great European Powers in taking active steps to arrest the tide of blood. But, however dilatory France may be, England will probably be more 60, and will delay until the opportunity has passed, and she is compelled to follow the example of France with so bad a grace as still further to incense both combatants. It would seem as if the new crusade, which is to commemorate and distinguish our latter days, is one against the numerous class of poverty-stricken wretched individuals, who strive to earn a small pittance to keep themselves from abaolute want. What motives propel, what feelings influence, those who exert themselves in such a cause, it is really very eifflcult to determine; but the fact is patent to the world, that so it is. The last grievance on the long list of oppressions is the restriction placed upon the trade of the poor "Boardman." These unhappy persons are to be prohibited from plying their trade in future —why or wherefore, it is impossible to say, nnless upon the plea or pretext of causing obstruction to the thoroughfares. While so many hindrances must arise, surely a Small inconvenience might be submitted to in order to afford a means of livelihood to those who are incapacitated from more Really if active employments., We 6 hail become e we go on much longer like this, capricious as the fabl e d princess wahsose tarbed by a crumpled rose -leaf. For fancifuland as rwas dis est the sake of qu i e t an d in the cause of order, hundreds are to be marched off to prison or oonsigned to the tender mercies of the workhouse if they are unwilling to starve. It is idle to suppose that the busiest metros polis in the world can be rendered such a peaceful spot of undisturbed tranquillity. The excuse alleged for the inconvenient prevalence of the numerous railways that intersect all spots and turn out the poor from their habitations, has been that the in crease of the locomotives will relieve the traffic. If so, why is it so imperative to cause the removal of these harmless labourers for their daily bread. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that great inconvenience was experienced, it would be worth while to put up with something in order to ensure a means of support to outcasts and helpless beings, who are quite unable to engage in any very complicated or arduous avocations. If half or a quarter of the pains were taken to find employ ment for the pariahs of society that are so actively employed in the warfare waged against them, how different would be their fate, and how much more would it conduce to the welfare and credit of society ! It is a scandal to our wealthy community thus to ignore the claims of those who are, by the very law of right and reason, entitled to assist ance of at least a negative nature. The efforts made by the charitable are chiefly directed to the wants of those who are suffering from sickness, or disabled by accident from taking their part in the great family, of toil, and mingling in the hives of human industry ; but there are " nameless martyrs" who deserve our attention, and demand some thought from all who appreciate the necessi ties of their case. The chief evil that is so bitterly felt in these affairs, is the indifference that is ex hibited in so many quarters which from position and interest can exercise such a paramount influence upon their destinies. The chief authorities of the realm seem to put all their energy into the prose cution of plans which have for their aim and object the suppression or extermination of certain classes. It is something after the fashion of Eastern despots or Northern autocrats—such and such people are in the way, they must get out of it ; it matters not how or where, they must go. Some who think of the ultimate consequences of all this arbitrary arrangment, may ask, perchance, if this is a course creditable to a Christian State, and worthy of being upheld by those who pride themselves upon their " people's right and laws." The liberty of the subject is intrinsically the same with high or low, and it is incumbent upon all who are the guardians of the State and the trustees of the nation's honour in regard to its sacred trust, the poor, to regulate their actions a little at all events by a higher law than that which classes them as machines, to be adjusted as best suits convenience. It is a wrong principle upon which we are acting of late; the stipulations lately made with respect to organ-grinders are a disgrace to those who ori• ginated them, and they will have much to answer for. When a poor persecuted wretch has been driven from post to pillar, told to move on, for bidden to engage in this toil, persecuted from follow. ieg that traffic, he may perhaps be tempted to enter the haunts of crime, or else to end the miserable exis• tence that seems begrudged to him. While the self• sufficient deplore the crime of the suicide, or scoff at the sin of the thief, does no warning voice tell them at whose door the charge may be laid. We hear plenty of what the poor may not, ought not, shall not do, but who ever tells them what it is that they ought to do. The only answer is, that they should not have got into such a condition. Since it is a recognised fact that thousands are so situated, is it not more politic to leave them a loophole for escape from sin, starvation, and despair. It can hardly be in accordance with the theories of political economy to overcrowd our workhouses; it cannot consort with the wellbeing of society to thrust them forth into the dark abyss of crime, and it is not consonant with the principles of humanity to leave them to perish. Because they have not their good things in this world, that is no reason why we should arrogate to ourselves the right of sending them out to die in the streets, victims to our high:y wrought civilisation. The DIVES of our enlightened century is, in truth, a terrible Moloch, but a reckoning will one day be taken for his treatment of the LAZARUS, whose penurious form crouched by the portals of his palatial home of luxury. There is no more short sighted policy than to prevent the poor from earning their scanty pittance by honest means, It is a; great step gained when they will work and be content to do something for themselves when bowed down by age, worn by sickness, sorrow, and the thousands ills to which flesh is heir. They who, from mistaken motives of propriety, and far-fetched ideas of order and regularity, pursue their plans until these unhappy beings are crushed and circumvented on all sides, are greatly to blame ; and by the machinations of such measures and the enforcement of such rules, where will be the gain if the enforcement of the edicts have sown famine and misery broadcast among the classes who can least parry their attacks and escape from their grim grt,sp ? The same principle pervades all modern policy of a domestic nature ; it makes no allowance for want and penury. All are classed together—just and unjust, virtuous and guilty, if they come under the generic term of poverty. It is time that our legislators looked to all this, else much of what has been done in the cause of Reform and the interests of charity will be lost. It is more justice than mercy that is demanded after all ; more a comprehensive view of their necessities, than a maudlin sensibility that prevents an honest and salutary independence. It is sad to dwell upon suck topics; too few consider the sub• ject to be one of importance, and are too ready to put it aside for more taking objects of interest. The poor shall never cease out of the land we know from the highest authority, but how different for the good of all if those condemned to bear this yoke are harmless, if not useful, members of the great family of mankind, instead of additions to the burdens of the State in its unions and its gaols, proficients in sin and shame, a burden to them selves and a reproach to others. It cannot be a loss of time or a waste of trouble to analyse the defects and deficiencies in our regulations con cerning the poor, and especially those who are carrying on their small trades, for much evil is wrought by the exterminating practices now so much in vogue. Little care is taken of their future fate when they are put out of the way; but if in our lists of casualties there appear more deaths from want, in our records of crime an increase to our criminals, it may be surely supposed that the lists have been swelled from the ranks of those who have been deprived of their calling, and who could give a dark answer if any one put to them the in quiry of searching import and of loving presage, " Whither goest thou ?''—on the world's highway. CHRISTMAS CAROLS.—CaroIs, as the name ims plies, are joyous songs for festive occasions, at ore period accompanied with dancing. In an old vocabulary of A.D. 1410' Carol, is defined as a Songe—in John Pals. grave's work cf A.D. 1530 Chanson de Noel—whilst in Anglo •Saxon times, according to Mr Albert Way, the word was rendered Kyrrisle, a chanting at the Nativity. The earliest carol in English, known under that name is the production of. Dame Berners, prioress of Sr. Alban's in the 14th century, entitled "A Carolle of Huntynge." This is printed on the last leaf of Wynkn de Worde's collectiou of Christmas carols, A.D. 1521, and Milton uses the word carol to express a devotional hytua,—Once a Week. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIAG, DECEMBER 22, 1864. LITERATURE, Misses and Matrimony. By Captain W. W. Knollys, of the 93d Sutherland Highlanders. John Max well and Co. A gallant young Captain in the Sutherland Highlanders has here made, as it were, a sudden bound, at a hop, skip and a jump, from the barrack yard into the regions sacred to the cultivation of light literature. It is the most hilarious first appearance of a man of letters, previously having only soldierly proclivities, that we can recall to mind, since the sudden apparition in the literary world of the gallant and accomplished author of " Lldy Lee's Widowhood." Colonel Hamley's radiant, riant fiction, however, was a far more pre tentious, was a far more ambitious, and a far more highly elaborated maiden work than the one here coming to us in so unpretending a guise from the hand of Captain Knollys. It purports to be no mole than a series of extracts taken from the Diary of A Young Lady 1 A sort of modernized Evelina, having in her composition just a faint dash of Ethel Newcome, together with a slight flavour of that well-known Miss Violet , who, once upon a time, had so many offers. In the vivacity o the manner of the narrative one seems to catch an eoho of the style of Mrs. Charles Gore— than which, what style in light, in very light literature could be marked by more exhilarating espieglerie t The two-and-twenty chapters of this animated novelette by Captain Knollys will be run merrily through by the author's readers, who —by the time they come to the close of his maiden work—will long for his reappearance as a contributor to our imaginative literature. New Pamphlets. Ilertford and its Castle : a Lecture. By Robert Dimadale, Esq. Bvo., pp. 46. Simeon and Groombridge. At a conve;sazione of the Hertford Literary and Scientific Institute, Mr Robert Dimsdale, of Essen don, on the 17th of last October delivered, in the Town dell at Hertford, this very able and thought ful lecture upon "Hertford and its Castle." Etta. mining its pages, now that it appears as a sub stantive publication, the thought occurs to us that, if there were but a few more country gentlemen like Mr Robert Dimsdale, what a variety of valuable, almost, we might say, of invaluable topo graphical and archaeological information might be massed together and arranged in symmetrical order by way of illustration, in vivid and picturesque il lustration of our old county towns and their ancient architectural adornments. Let but some man of education, of taste, of reflection, of sound judg ment and of extensive information in the neigh bourhood of each of these venerable cities or borough towns of England, follow in the track here traced up from the present epoch to a remote period of antiquity in regard to Hertford and its Castle by Mr Robert Dimsdale, of Essendon—and pamphlet lectures such as the one now submitted to our consideration would number up, one after another, until many goodly volumes should have accumulated upon our bookshelves ! Volumes of the highest importance to all future students of our national history, and not unworthy of preservation among our ,national archives as a repertory of profoundly interesting information, A Letter to the Dean of Canterbury. Bvo. Pp. 35. By Ichabod Wright, M.A. Macmillan and Co. A well-considered and singularly persuasive argument, in favour of blank verse being selected as the proper medium for rendering Homer into English, is here advanced. It is an argument of course in direct opposition to that sustained with so much logical acumen and scholarly grace by Mr. Mathew Arnold, the accomplished Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. The dictum of Professor Arnold being against Blank Verse, Mr. Wright has here undertaken to support and to enforce the directly opposite opinion. And, as good luck would have it, barely has his letter to the Dean of Canterbury in favour of Blank Verse as the liomeric Medium seen the light when the argument it is designed to further is sustained and advanced very appreciably by the issuing from the Press, in its completed form of Lard Derby's remarkable version of the "Iliad "in Blank Verse! No wonder that Mr. Wright— already favourably known as a Translator of Dante —eagerly follows up the recent publication of his pamphlet with a fly-leaf Postoript directing par ticular attention to the fact of "Lord Derby's beautiful version of the having made (tor him, the pamphleteer, in the very nick of time) its most opportune appearance I Universal Suffrage. Bvo. pp. 32. Fourth Edition Effingham Wilson. Somebody has said—so the title page informs us in inverted commas, but without hinting at the authority, even by an initial—" The Arguments of this Pamphlet are Unanswerable." As a pamphlet it has, rather,oddly, a sort of double title—nay, for that matter we might almost say a treble title. First of all—rather grandly leading off this highly elaborated title, we read" The Right of the People to Universal Suffrage Clearly Demonstrated by the late Duke of Richmond." Afterwards we find Remarks by Henry Brooke s , 9, And added—upon the title-page.... 44 With Prefatory finally— and to conclude—" To which is added The Suf. frage Nationalised and Duration of Parliaments. By a Barrister." So that the pamphleteer is, ac cording to Mrs Milaprop's definition of Cerberue --a Barrister, Henry Brooks, Esq., and the lat e D uke of Richmond ! " three gentlemen in one'' Reasons enough, in truth, for the argument being (as stated by itself) unanswerable, Whether they really are so or not the reader may decide for him. self according to his prejudices or his predelictions. At any rate, as an argument at all about the Suf frage and the need there is for its extension, it appears just now precisely is welcome accordingly. at the right tim e , and •••••• ••••• '1..0 The Anti-Teapot Review, ,Na. 111. Houlaton and Wright. The whimsical little fourpenny Qac.aterly, thus entitled, goes on its way rejoicing. " Edited by members of the Universities, and written only 0) by members of 77ie Anti-T eapot Society of Europe " (whatever that may b e ) , the magazine contains within it a good deal of humour, much earnest ness, plenty of talent, an d no small sprinkling of its preposterously evidences of go o d scholarship. In spite of preposterously affected title, it wins its way to the good opinion of those who look i n t o it as a mis cellaneous gathering together every quarter of papers political, literary, and artistic. Beeton's Christ mas A nnual. Bvo. PP. 96' ........... Fifth Season. 8. 0. Beeton. Under the Fantastic title of " Number Seven Beeton's Christmas Annual makes its appearance yet once again most seasonably —gladdening all who venture a shilling upon its purchase with plenty of fun a n d f rolic in the way o f t h e very lightest specim ens of light literature. Augustus Mayhew's Chi nese stories looted from Hi s C elest i a l Majesty's P a l ace at Pekin—F. C. Burnand's Sensa. tional Pantomim e f or the Theatre Royal Back Drawing R oom , B oadicea the B eaut if u l, or H arm lequin Julius Cistar and the Delightful Druid— Thomas Hood's Chronicle of the Court of King Christmas, to say nothing of the same humourist's contribution to The Slang Dictionary—these, together with Nonsense Pages by W. Brunton, Four Sensational Novels, we don't know how many charades, enigmas, and conundrums—make up this wonderful "Story of Somebody's Son"—in Sven Parts (the Story, not the Son)—called, because of those Seven Parts, Number Seven —an annual en titled to have had upon its title page as an ap propriate motto—" ,Ye are Seven," according to the famous " refrain" of one of the most charming of the poems of 'Wordsworth. WHALING NEW.—Honolulu dates of Nov. 9 have been received. Fort.7-five whalers had arrived. and 10 were expected there. The general result of the whaling season is sot so favourable as last ye4r, the catch having averaged about 600 barrels per vessel. The most of the fleet cruised in the Arctic, and report whales scarce and small. The Ochotsk whale's mike more favourable reports, and ex pected arrivals from there would probably bring a general average of about SOO barrels per vessel,—San Francisco paper, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ROME. ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF THE POPE. ROME, DEC. 21. The Pope has issued an encycncal letter con. demning the . principal modern errors concerning revealed religion, philosophy, and oivil society. These errors are enumerated in 80 propositions and are pointed out to the Bishops to be refuted. In another encyclical letter the Pope grants a Jubilee of one month to be celebrated in 1865. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 21. The Reactionist and Moiorate journals attack the Government on account of the nomination of Marshal Concha as President of the Senate. TURIN, DEC. 21. The lndependenza asserts that General Anglo• letto has been nominated Minister of Marine. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 21.—The market has been rather week: Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 20c,, and Mobilier 922 f. 50c. itctilway Market heavy, with a alight decline on some of the lines. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents. 94 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 20 Credit Mobilier..., 925 Do. end month 926 25 Bank Shares 3560 Credit k oncier 1230 Roman - RAIL Italian Loan 65 30 Do. end month 65 40 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 50 50 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 44 50 Home Debt Deferred Cash. Account. Orleans .. c.. 848 75 .. 847 50 Northern - Gyonsand Mediterranean 877 50 880 Southern Western - Eastern .... 492 50 .. 492 50 Sardinian Austrian Lombard .. 503 75 .. 506 25 North of Spain Saragosaa 430 .. 435 Ditto to Barcelona AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22. The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, from New York on the 10th inst., has arrived. She brings 175 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen-290,000 dols in specie for England -12,160 dols. for France—and 2,684 for Bremen. On the 17th instant she passed a Hamburg steamer steering west. On the same day in lat. 49 25 N, long. 31 4 AV. saw the British barque Burn side, of Greenock, waterlogged, and with her mains mast gone—the lower part of her fore and mizen masts were standing. The sea broke continually over the wreck, and the bulwarks and the cabins were washed away. On the 20th in lat. 49 55 N., long. 12 55 W. passed the British ship Geologist, bound eastward. DEPREDATIONS OF THE CONFEDERATE CRUISER SHENANDOAH. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22. Private advices received here by the Brazil mail and posted in the Underwrit9rs'-room announce that the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, late the Sea King, had captured and destroyed several American ships off the South American coast. Amongst her captured are the brig Susan, the barks Eleea and E. Godfrey, and the schooner Charter. The Shenandoah had also captured and bonded for 40,000 dols. the ship Kate Prince, from Cardiff, whioh has arrived at Bahia. The Shenandoah carries 8 guns, and is com manded by Capt. Wardell, ARRIVAL OF THE EDINBURGH. The laman steamship Edinburgh, from New York on the 10th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 130 p-m. to-day, with 426,908 dollars in specie, the mails, and 243 passengers. Silo landed 44 pas sengers, and proceeded at 1 40 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. Advices from City Point indicate an early re newal of hostilities before Petersburg. The 2d and sth Army Corps were massed near the Jerusalem Plank Road on the night of the 6th, and on the following morning advanced towards Stoney Creek Station, on the Weldon Road. This is thought to be preliminary to either a grand attack upon Lee's line south of Petersburg, or to effect a lodgment on the south side railroad. A general engagement is considered imminent. The Richmond papers state that Grant has re cently been reinforced, and that Lee is thoroughly informed as to the plans of his adversary, and am ply prepared to thwart him. It is rumoured that General Early is about to advance against Sheridan, and that he bad been reinforced by Breckenridge. The Confederates are said to have re-occupied Atlanta in strong force. Federal advices from East Tennessee report that the Federals und3r Barbridge had advanced to Beare's Station, and that Breckenridge had re treated beyond. Bull's Gap. Resolutions have been introduced into the Con federate Senate vigorously opposing , the arming of the slaves, on the grOuud that as yet no necessity existed for that measure. In Mr Seward's letter to Mr Adams, referring to Lord Wharncliffe's proposal to furnish pecuniary aid to Confederate prisoners, he states that the American people will be likely to reflect that the sum is insidiously tendered in the name of huma nity, and constitutes no large portion of the profits which its contributors may be justly supposed to have derived from the insurgents by exchanging them arms and munitions of war for the coveted prodactions of immoral and enervating slave labour. Nor will any portion of the American people be disposed to regard the sum so ostenta tiously offered for the relief of captured insurgents as a too generous equivolent, for the devastation and dissolution which a civil war, promoted and pro tracted by the British subjects, has spread through• out tho States which before were eminently prosper rous and happy. Papal Ideas of Justice. Sir George Bowyer, writing to the 71mes, says : "I am authorised to state that the paragraph going the round of the papers asserting that Cardi nal Antonelli had written a letter to the British Consul requesting him, through Lord Russell, to influence the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the Count Belli in a case pending before the Court of Chan cery, is materially incorrect. No such influence was asked. The despatch of Cardinal Antonelli, written at the suggestion of the British Consul, contained a declaration of international law, in volved in the case in question, for the information of the court. It had been represented to the Car dinal Secretary of State that Count Belli's right to succeed to property under his wife's will was disputed in England on the ground that a British subject could not by the laws of Rome enjoy a similar right. The Cardinal's despatch deqlared the law of Rome to be that no such incapacity to succeed exists in the Papal dominions, and it was intended to prevent the Court from being led into a serious error. " I must add that the answer of Lord Russell was ❑ot in conformity with the true meaning of the despatch. The Roman Government never suspected that a British Court of Justice should be influenced by a Minister of the Crown, and never desired the exercise of such an influence." I His Excellency Lord vVodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has kindly consented to become president of the Dublin Bay Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Inati• tution. and to contribute £lO annually to its funds, in place of the late Earl of Carlisle, THE CITY WARDMOTES, Yesterday being St. Thomas's day, the usual annual meetings of th 9 inhabitants of the various wards were held, to elect the officers for the year ensuing, and to take into consideration the various topics affecting the interests of the Corporation. Amongst those matters the most prominent under discussion were the present high price and impure quality of the gas supplied to the City of London, the utilisation of the sewage, and protection from the encroachments of the various railway schemes into the City. With regard to the representation in the Court of Common Council, the old members were re-elected, with the exception of Aldgate, Dread.street, Bridge, Cheap, Cripplegate Without and Tower, in each of which a sharp contest is ex pected. We subjoin a notice of these wards in which any alteration was made or proposed. The polling will take place to day : ALDGATE. In the retirement of Mr R. Broad water a vacancy in the representation of this ward was occasioned, to fill which there were two new candidates, viz., Messrs E. D. Rogers, and J. Hudson. Upon the show of hands, the following were returned : Messrs H. A. Isaacs, It. B. Whiteside, S. C. Davis, E. D. Rogers, W. H. Teuton, R. C. Buckneli, B. Burnley, J. Turnley. A poll was demanded on be. half of Mr J. Hudson. BREAD-STREET. The old members—Messrs H. Hawtray (the de. puty), N. Maughan, F. Maynard, J. Smith, T. M'Catchon, J. M'Oeorge, A. Pill, and A. J, Cole— were proposed, with the name, in addition, of Mr Bidley. On a show of hands being taken, all but Mr Smith were declared elected, upon which a poll was demanded on his behalf. BRIDGE. There was a vacancy in this ward caused by the retirement of Mr Matthews. The old members, together with the new candidates, were put to the meeting, and the following was the result ; Messrs C. Whetham, 39 ; Johnson, 26 ; Blake, 32; raylor, 42 ; Hartland, 49 ; and May, 13 (the above are the old members) ; Taylor, 35 ; Arnold, 43 ; Gower, 28 ; eh/licher, 21 ; and Roberts, 3. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr May. CHEAP. Two vacancies occurred in this ward, owing to the death of Mr Houghton and the resignation of Mr Barnes. The following names were proposed— Messrs Thorp, Tegg, Stuurt, Gibbins, Bennet, Wright, Morey, Orridge, Bontom, and Wilson. The result of the show of hands was —for Thorp, 45; Tegg, 44 ; Stuart, 45 ; Gibbins, 53 ; Bennett, 50 ; Morey, 49 ; Wright, 24 ; Orridge, 42 ; Bon tom, 22 ; Wilson, 22. The first eight Were de clared to be elected, but a poll was demanded on behalf of Messrs Bontom and Wilson. CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT. There were two new candidates, Messrs Jesse Turner and James Harvey; the late representatives being Messrs Read, King, Cuthbert, Pickering, Morise, Smitb, Nind, and Gower, who were candi dates for re-election. The names were put and the following was the result :—Gower, 95 ; T urner , 90 ; Nind, 73 ; Pickering, 73 ; Smith, 68 ; CuthM bert, 61 ; Read, 60 ; King, 53 ; Harvey, 52; and Morisse, 37. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr Morisse. LIME-STREET. Alderman Mechi, who presided, the old members having been reselected, said—Before you propose a vote of thanks to me, as I presume you intend to do, I wiah to trouble you with a few remarks about myself. I hold that although you have elected an alderman for life he has no right to hold the office any longer than he can retain it with honour to himself. You are aware of a circumstance that has taken place which has not been very profitable to me. You have known me for twenty-seven years as carrying on business in this ward, and you have known the manner in which I have conducted my business transactions. If there is one spot upon my character, either commercially or morally, I should be happy to resign into your hands the trust that you have conferred upon me. You have now all the evidence in that long cross•examinatiou. I have been robbed of .£27,000. I have still enough to maintain my position. (Cheers.) But indepen dently of monetary considerations, 1 could not hold my position unless you believed that I was dewy 3 ing of your esteem. (Cheers.) On the motion of Mr Morris, supported by several other gentlemen, a vote of thanks and continued confidence, with ex• pressions of sympathy for his recent troubles, were unanimously passed, and the proceedings closed. TOWER. There were two vacancies in consequence of the resignation of Mr Lawrence Redhead and Mr H. N. Nissen, the deputy. The new candidates were Messrs. Edwin Smith, B. Corcoran, C. Robinson, J. Forster (of the Railway Tavern, Fenchurch. street), Henry H. Aste, and C. Heginbotham. Upon a show of hands the following were returned : Masers. J. Young, H. Heath, J. S. Banning, J. North way, B. Corcoran, and C. Heginbottom ; upon upon which a poll was demanded on behalf of Mr Edwin Smith and others. The Papal Government and the Confederate States. The Index publishes the subjoined reply of his Holiness the Pope to the manifesto of the Con federate States:-- " Honourable Gentlemen—Mr Soutter has handed me a letter of Nov.ll, with which, in conformity to the instructions of your Government, you have sent me a copy of the manifesto issued by the Congress of the Confederate States and approved by the most honourable President, in order that the attention of the Government of the Holy See, to whom, as well as to the other Governments, you have addressed yourselves, might be called to it. " The sentiments expressed in the manifesto, tending as they do to the most bloody war which still rages in your countries, and to the putting an end to the disasters which accompany it by pro ceeding to negotiations for peace, being entirely in accordance with the disposition and character of the august head of our Catholic Church, I did not hesitate a moment in bringing it to the notice of the Holy Father. "His Holiness, who has been deeply afflicted by the accounts of the frightful carnage of this ob stinate struggle, has heard with satisfaction the expression of the same sentiments. Being the Vicar on earth of that God who is the author of peace, he yearns to see these wraths appeased and peace re• stored. In proof of this he wrote to the Archbishops of New York and New Orleans, as far back as Oct. 18, 1862, inviting them to exert themselves in bring ing about this holy object. You may, then, hon. gentlemen, feel well assured that whenever a fa• vourable occasion can present itself, his Holiness will not fail to avail himself of it, to hasten so de. sirable result, and that all nations may be united in the bonds of charity. "In acquainting you with this benignant dia. position of the Holy Father, I am pleased to declare myself, with sentiments of the most distinguished esteem, truly your servant, " G. Card. ANTONELLI. "Rome, Dec. 2, 1864. " Messrs. A. Dudley Mann, J. M. Mason, and John Slidell, Commissioners of the Confederate States of America, Paris." BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopa t hic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as bting the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to b 3 obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, "Food and its A.dulteratioas," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher thin either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined Vb., ;lb., and lib. labelled packets, and sold by all grocers, confectioners, and chenaifita,—[ADTT.] Cunt nun ' AT ti,Er, HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 21. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess Pelena. Princess Louise also took an airing, attended by Countess Blucher, HER MAJESTY'S BOUNTY.—On Friday and Saturday in the past week her most Gracious Majesty's bounty and gate alms to aged, blind, and other meritorious poor who had been recommended by the clergy in the vari ous. parishes and districts in and round London, were chs• tributed at the Almonry-office in Middle Scotland-yard ; and on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the current week the distributions were resumed, in anticipation of Christmas. These distributions were made—under the directing care of the Lord Bishop of Oxford (Lord nig h Almoner) and the Rev. Dr Jelf, D,D. (Sub-Almoner) —b y Mr Joseph Hanby, secretary and yeoman of the almonry in ordinary. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne ar e entertaining company in their seat in Wiltshire. Viscountess Liemore has arrived in town on the conclusion of her visit to Viscount and Viscountess Cursors at their seat in Leicestershire. Herr Ernst. It will be thrice welcome news to all the lovers of the highest order of musical genius here in Eng' land when they learn the intelligence, which we are rejoiced from our heart at being enabled to announce to them—that Herr Heinrich Ernst, illustrious is Art at once as a Great Violinist and a rarely-gifted Composer, has of late experienced a very appreciable improvement in his health. Insomuch, that he has made more than one brilliant public appearance at Paris and at Berlin, on his way to his present place of sojourn, at Nice, There, at that le.st.men° tioned place of winter residence among health' seeking Europeans, we will hope that his conve° lescence may be so far steadily continued that before his return northwards, into our own less genial latitudes, his constitution may be materially strengthened and, in a great measure, even, re' habilitated. A Volunteer Lifeboat. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The disasters during the late gales cannot fail to call attention to the great services rendered by the National Lifeboat Institution, and should stir up not only individual charity, but all great public communities to aid that insti• tution in their noble work—the preservation of human life. Why should not we bear our part ? A subscription of one penny from each effective, if our good friend the Inspector- General is right in his figures, would be amply sufficien t to build and equip a first-class liteboat, to be presented to the institution, and stationed by them where most at pre sent needed. lam sure the commanding officers and cap' tains of companies would willingly lend a hand in collect• ing.—Yours, Ste., December 21, 1864. 3n LONDON. Mr_ Fraser, Dr Maginn, and Miss Landon• The Hon. Grantley Berkeley writes as follows to our leading contemporary : _ _ - Sir,—ln your review of my book in the Times of the 16th December you call my reference to the late "Miss Landoll an ex parte statement, and you say " that those who could speak to the facts are all dead now." By this you assuredly attempt to doubt my veracity. The chief witness, alas I is dead ; she died, as we all know, by an act caused ty broken heart, and with her the most terrible proof of all lies buried in the grave. . _ When Dr Maginn died ho left a widow, and for the benefit of his widow the Morning Post and other papers of the day set on foot and warmly advocated a public sub scription, laying before the ch a rit a bl e h er d es ti tu t e condi tion, and lauding the virtues, public and private, of her de ceased husband. In this benevolent attempt the duel with me was by some of the papers alluded to, and its origin as' signed to every cause but the true oae. The last publication whieh came to my notice in which this transaction was re* ferred to was the Irish Quarterly, and there it was given 5 0 a "political quarrel." While this subscription for the widow was ou foot, and while the press were lavishing praise on a man whose entire life was one of drunkenness and debauchery and anony mous detraction, for the sake of the widow I remained silent and overlooked the false statements that were made in r egard to the duel ; but when the subscription had been attained , then, on the appearance of the article respecting it in the Irish Quarterly, I warned the editor that if again a fats© colour was cast upon the transaction by the Quarterly, or any other portion of the press, having no longer any r eason for withholding the truth, I would give to the public a cor rect version of the matter. This is the first time, since I gave that warning, that the+ subject has been mooted. In my book, and in my account of my success f u l defence of the gifted but terribly ill-used girl (a defence which, ala s I came all toe late), I have told just enough of the truth t° make evident the sad fact. If I have trodden lightly ove r her misfortunes, and it my publisher has spared them, that surely should invite the approbation of a leading journa l and your praise, rather than an attempted insinuati on against my truthful narrative. And now permit me a few word's as to my assault on the late " Mr Fraser," which you say "you must characteri se as it deserves." I quote your words preoisely as you hav e published them. "The chastisement inflicted on a poor , feeble old man, such as Fraser was at that date, was $° brutal and excessive that we regret that Mr Berkeley 10 exhibited no sense of contrition for his wanton exhibition of his muscular superiority." To this in all confidence I reply that by every appearance` Mr Fraser seemed to me to be then and there in the prime of life. He was neither a little man nor a "ie6blei' man . He certainly had not a wig on or it must have come ot° ; therefore if the outside of his head was his own it had 'le i. ther a bald place nor a gray hair on it, nor had he a gray' hair on his whiskers. He was nimble enough on his leg e ' certainly, Moreover, such had been the nature of his scan dalous attacks on several gentlemen that they had contem plated a personal assault on him, but were advised to abstain from it on account of a doubt as to whether or O r they would successfully succeed in the administration e" punishment. When I sought the shop in Regent-street I neither la° nor cared what sort of a man Mr Fraser was; had he bee: a giant or a Tom Thumb, on his refusal to my fair dent s % I should have used the whip. I came forth to r edress wrong, and failing to obtain redress administered a punish' went that, in the eyes of a jury, deserved no pecunierf compensation. I know nothing of the date of Mr Fraser: birth, but had he been the feeble old man you assert hin t t o. have been, surely that fact would not have escaped I/ pleadings for excessive damage. en I care not what you say of my book nor of me, save Nv ta t you attribute to me a deviation from the truth, or W il , actions. To those offences on your part, as you are a g er ': de ot man as well as the owner of the Times newspaper , I d`r. your attention, and request at the same time the publicatio of this letter.—Yours, GRANTLEY F 13BRAET Alderney-cottage, Wimborne, Dec. 13. A WORKMAN'S TICKET- OF- LEAYE.—On go Dl als at the police-office, Birmingham, before Messrs. D. and T, Lloyd, William Gore, joiner, sued Mr Joseph 1 -131. " 4 0 wick, builder, Bradford-street, for 12s lid, being 1 " ge ,, 0 alleged to be due for a half-week's work done. Dir .Pll - for the complainant, and Mr Kennedy, o f one Midland Circuit, for the defendant. As the case Wa s ° 7 l which would decide a good many others of a simila r o f some intereet was taken in it by a la r g e numb". to operatives who attended. Mr Jones sa id it was not jog amount involved, but the point to be decided as airc e ,' L ,, DO a body of joiners, that made the case iraportant.Dott complainant was in the employmen t of defendant, on, Tuesday week last, along with the others, he struck fitwo without notice, on account of a certain resof,• agreed upon by the masters , and h un g u p in the 017:o On the Saturday following the complainant the defendant for the wages due for the SaturdaY' r se d, day, and Tueeday that he had worked' but Nvdo we ak t on the ground that he had not w orked out lII° and he now brought his action to recover the r d by The question was whether the me n were epOD 010 the week or by the hour. After the evidence point had been heard, Mr Malins in announcing ft .ber e sion of till bench, said th'ry wer e sorry to b ear th frual:ter should be these recurring differences hetweerA alwayG and men on a large scale, be cause they wenrc', mutually injurious; but, however much the b . e o o '' o P r do deplore them, they could of course do nothrtnegt.'_ gaga adjusting them, and must confine them' fora 12a lion of whether the complainant's wages ought to be allowed under the ci a rc h nj h they 8 6 10 n ot bench thought it ought not; and , thong g could not holP always give reasons for their decisions, stronthatgly. ht be reasonablY and a half was remitted on Saturday it might _ or rho claim utorstanclet criDe was to be spree° v .liy concluded that the sacrifice made were not 163 whole of the week, and that a week's wage ones, we re to due until the long days, as well as the short conclusion worked out. They had therefore come to the dismiss the cornplainahVo claim,